Taira no Munemori and the Taira clan take the young Emperor Antoku and the Imperial Regalia of Japan and flee to western Japan to escape pursuit by the Minamoto clan. (Traditional Japanese calendar: Twenty-fifth Day of the Seventh Month of the Second Year of Juei).,

A joint European-Japanese-United States force (Eight-Nation Alliance) occupies Beijing, in a campaign to end the bloody Boxer Rebellion in China.,